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The Farmers' Alliance in Texas, 1875-1900
Pendleton, accepted the Commission, and granted other con-
cession planks to the insurgents, notably unlimited coinage of
silver and abolition of national banks." Exalted by this victory,
the leftists forced to the front another pet, Macune's sub-
treasury plan, which he had outlined to the State Alliance in
1888, suggesting that the exchange should issue notes up to
90% of the value of non-perishable farm commodities placed
in warehouses, insured, and made over to it. The notes would
circulate as currency among the Patrons and be redeemed by
the exchange when it sold the commodities.27 After the demise
of the exchange, killed as the non-conformists said by bour-
geois plots, they set about to substitute the state or federal
government for the part of the exchange in the scheme. Re-
minded by the Democrats that the platform declared against
the plan at least by implication if not in words,'"" they rallied
behind Lamb, Harry Tracy from Michigan, Thomas Gaines,
J. H. "Cyclone" Davis, the oratorical giant of the state, and
the sensational, humorous, and fearless H. S. P. Ashby, who
had been a circus clown, Confederate soldier, cowboy, farmer,
teacher, and minister (deposed for alleged use of whiskey);
under this leadership they "bushwhacked Texas," according
to the Alliance rightists, for delegates to pack the approaching
State Alliance. Holding their forces in line for the crucial
maneuver until "some 70" delegates had gone home, at mid-
night with three delegates in bed on promise that certain issues
would not be brought up, they settled the editorship of the
Mercury on Tracy by the deciding vote of the chairman, who
cast out the votes of the departed Young County delegates.
In the next month the Mercury propagated the plan, the for-
tunes of which in Austin were entrusted to a steering legislative
committee which rightists said was appointed unauthoritatively
by the chairman.129
The election of Hogg crowned by the creation of a com-
mission was considered a personal victory by the Alliance and
126Winkler (ed.), Platforms, 286-290.
127Report of Macune to State Alliance, August, 1888, in Dunning (ed.),
Farmers' Alliance, 314-323.
12sThis part read: "We oppose the collection and distribution, by the
Federal government, of any money . . . in any way of advancement, or
loan to any citizen or class, upon any sort of security, whether govern-
ment or commercial bonds, farm or other products." Winkler (ed.), Plat-
forms, 288.
129Address to the Farmers', Laborers, . . .; Martin, The People's Party
in Texas, 113-135.365
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